I already had an exchange on this story with a reader.
Concerned Citizen said...
Feel and believe however you want, but the kid did not dart out into the street. Unless you were there and saw otherwise...
“I initially stopped the car, you know, a lot of kids play on that street — that’s residential, 15-25 [mph],” Killings said. “I initially stopped him. He slowed down a bit and then he kind of like swerved around me, hitting my other son. My son wasn’t hit in the middle of the street. He was hit on the curb.”
It does not justify the shooting, nor does it discredit those who feel that this was thuggery by the perpetrators. But let's at least not blame it on the boy or his parents.
Tuesday, March 28, 2017 at 11:56:00 A.M. EDT
Nicholas said...
"He was hit on the curb.”
Who was holding the four-year-old's hand “on the curb”?
Do you not realize how ridiculous that sounds? If you believe that, I've got a great deal for you on a slightly used bridge.
“Feel and believe however you want, but the kid did not dart out into the street. Unless you were there and saw otherwise...”
Oh, so if witnesses make ridiculous claims about an incident, unless the investigators had been there and seen otherwise, they have to take everything they’re told at face value?
Likewise, unless jurors had been at a crime scene, they have to take witnesses’ fairy tales at face value?
Your “Were you there?” line is one of the two or three dumbest lines one reads on the Internet.
As for Jamal Killings saying, “I have no malice in my heart,” isn’t that for the victim’s family to say?
[Previously, on this atrocity, at WEJB/NSU: “A Lynching in Cincinnati: Jamie Urton, 44, Murdered for Driving While White; AP and KSN Misrepresent Lynching as ‘Fight’; Did Emmitt Till Die in a ‘Fight’?”]
Father of 4-year-old struck by car apologizes to the family of the driver who was shot, killed
"I have no malice in my heart"
By Rose-Ann Aragon
11:56 P.M., Mar 25, 2017
6:58 A.M., Mar 28, 2017
WCPO
CINCINNATI -- The 4-year-old boy struck by a car Friday in Walnut Hills was released from the hospital Saturday with bleeding in his brain, his father Jamal Killings said.
The boy was hit on Kenton Street between Burbank and Wilkinson streets at about noon Friday, according to police. Police said he crossed the roadway in front of the car and was struck.
An altercation developed between the onlookers and the driver, 44-year-old Jamie Urton, who was then out of the vehicle, and someone shot him. Urton died later at the hospital.
[No “altercation developed between” anyone. That’s just racial-socialist Newspeak for, “Racist black men hanging out murdered the white driver in cold blood.”]
Killings said he didn’t realize what had happened to Urton following the incident.
"My job as a father was to get my son face first off the concrete and take him to see medical attention, and that's what I did,” Killings said.
Killings said his son wasn’t in the middle of the street when he was hit.
"The car came from the bottom of my street, going about 45 miles per hour,” Killings said. “I initially stopped the car, you know a lot of kids play on that street -- that's residential, 15-25. I initially stopped him. He slowed down a bit and then swerve around me, hitting my other son. My son wasn't hit in the middle of the street. He was hit on the curb."
Killings said the incident was tragic for everyone involved, and he expressed condolences to Urton’s family.
"I apologize for your loss. I don't condone violence. I don't teach my kids violence,” Killings said. “That should never have happened … an unfortunate situation, unfortunate event, but I hope we all can learn from this."
Anyone with information on the incident should call Crimestoppers.
Mr. Killings must know - - must know, who the perpetrators are?? He has told the police who the villains are and he has told the police where to find them? "I took care of my kid" is short too for I did not see what occurred and was not there at the time the terrible events occurred.
ReplyDeleteThis stuff goes down the rabbit hole too. Needs to be followed. Out of sight out of mind and all that. Must not be.
This Urton lynching was deja vu.Even the name is similar to the incident of three years ago in Detroit.Urton--Utash.Read on from 3 years ago.I thought it was the same story.
ReplyDeleteDETROIT (WWJ) – As a 54-year-old Roseville man clings to life in the hospital following a brutal mob beating on Detroit’s east side, many are starting to wonder if the whole thing was racially motivated.
(GRA:You think?)
As first reported by WWJ Newsradio 950, an 11-year-old boy suffered a broken leg on Wednesday when he was hit by a pickup truck after walking into the street near Morang and Balfour. The driver, Steven Utash, immediately got out of his truck after hitting the boy and was viciously attacked by 10 to 12 men. The beating was so brutal, Utash
was rendered unconscious.
Utash’s son Joseph told WWJ’s Gary Lundy Thursday night that his father remains in a medically induced coma, nearly unrecognizable due to his injuries.
“If it went on any longer, my dad wouldn’t be in the hospital right now, he would be in the morgue. The way he looked, I am surprised that he is alive,” he said. “He has bruising over his face, his eyes are swollen, I believe it’s his left eye that is completely swollen shut. He also has a big, huge knot on his forehead like he got hit with an object, not a fist.”
Joseph Utash said he was working with his father in Detroit just hours before the attack. Both of the men are tree-trimmers, working in the city for years now.
“I came home from work and it was on the news, my dad’s pickup truck, and I was just like ‘Oh my god.’ Then I heard that he hit a kid and I was like freaking out that my dad hit a kid. And then I heard that bystanders just beat him up and I just, I called my mom immediately,” he said. “From what I’m hearing is he tried to fight back, but trying to fight back against 11 people fighting you, that’s 22 fists coming at you at once, you can’t really do much.”
Detroit Police Sgt. Michael Woody said Steven Utash was not at fault for the accident.
“Our preliminary investigation shows the child stepped in front of his vehicle,” Woody said. “He did exactly the right thing. He stopped his vehicle, he got out and he tried to render aid to a small child. He did exactly what he was supposed to do… It was a small child and it was an accident is what it was.”
GRA:When I first read this story,I thought it was an update on the Utash beating and had to look it up to see that Utash and Urton's names were close enough to bring it back in my mind.The bloggers,in the Detroit Free Press I was reading at the time, all said"You do not stop to help a black in that situation.You drive off and call the cops from far away.They will understand."
--GR Anonymous
Two Different Shades of Murder.
ReplyDeleteGrand Rapids has a murder in the original ghetto area last night(black on black-a 99.9% likely hood)and a March 11th car crash becomes a murder charge as 16 year old Mexican Alex Torrez will be charged with two counts of second degree murder.He ran his speeding car into a car driven by a beautiful white Calvin College coed.The crash also killed his brother,a passenger in the illegally driven vehicle.Black and brown--two different shades of murder.
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — Grand Rapids police are investigating the shooting death of a 52-year-old(black)man.
Police responded to a report of shots fired around 12:30 a.m. Wednesday in the 100 block of Putnam Street SW near Division Avenue.
When officers arrived, they found the man unresponsive outside a home in the area. Emergency crews performed CPR but the man was pronounced dead on scene.
It’s unclear how many times the man was shot.
Wednesday, Grand Rapids Police Department Sgt. Terry Dixon says the death is being investigated as a murder.
A K-9 unit was brought in to help track the suspect(s), but was unsuccessful.
No arrests have been made at this time and no suspect information is available.l
KENTWOOD, Mich. (WOOD) — A teen driver who led Michigan State Police on a chase that ended in a deadly crash in Kentwood is facing murder charges.
The Kent County Prosecutor’s Office authorized the charges against 16-year-old Alejandro “Alex” Benito Torrez Wednesday. The warrant is for two counts of second-degree murder in the March 11 crash that killed his cousin, 15-year-old David Torrez, and another driver, Calvin College student Tara Oskam.
GRA:No further word on any of the three other shootings (2 murders,1 stomach shooting survivor).Our cops are staying busy.
--GR Anonymous
The father is now wanted for murder.
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